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A very important topic and its a topic that were going to discuss today. the whole situation with nuclear to me is very, very important, as weve been discussing today at the various meetings that weve had. i think thats something that has to be taken care of and it has to be dealt with very strongly. >> reporter: mr. president, are you happy with canadian defense spending as it is right now? >> well, theyre moving up and theyre moving up sub stanchly and starting to do very well economically and...

Back with us, peter baker of the times and ambassador mcfaul as well. lots to discuss here. and antonio, let me start with you on the president and what he said this morning about republicans to geoffs point here, talking strategy likely tomorrow with pat cipollone. really interesting, on the day that the judiciary hearing is going down and the president feels that his gop allies have his back. watch. >> i think the republican party is right now more united than theyve ever been. there has never...

It? >> we found a security problem with it and canada is going to make a decision at some point. but we find -- i just speak for the united states and we have the ability to do a lot of things. weve actually advanced very far on 5g, much further than anyone knows. we have a lot of action going on with respect to 5g. were not using huawei and some of our great companies are getting much involved with 5g right now. but no, we found a tremendous security problem with respect to huawei. >> reporter:...

Few more misgivings. but i feel like we already know what the end of the movie is going to be. were going to go to go through all of the machinations that get us through january. we all know hes going to be acquitted. and if you look at polling, the public opinion is not changing and it is highly partisan. and for the speaker of the house she knows thats a dangerous game and thats where we are. so from the presidents perspective they are unified behind him. >> ambassador, when you have the presi...

Thought that was -- and im paraphrasing, also ridiculous. and based on your reporting and many sources in and around the white house, would that change anything strategically for this administration if that were to be something democrats would pursue? >> yeah, probably not. you heard the president talk about that, too. he says you dont censure somebody for doing everything perfectly. the difference between this time is that president clinton admitted 21 years ago, eventually after lying for seve...

Suggested that he would send isis captured fighters over to france. how do you read the reactions we just saw? >> first, i dont speak french so i dont exactly know what president macron said. >> there was an audio tra translation and our apologies. i know it was very low for our non-french speaking viewers, like myself, by the way. >> but the gist i think was pretty clear and he actually gave a pretty comprehensive answer. i dont quite understand why president trump said that was a non-answer. h...

Were responding to the attacks. macron clearly not answering directly the attacks that president trump made earlier this morning, really hitting at frances economy, suggesting that it was totally inappropriate for macron to make the comments about being the brain death of nato. you saw it get tense where the president himself said that sounded like a nonaven-answer w he was talking about macrons answer about the isis fighters. one thing we dont know is whether that press conference was at the en...

And i find it quite ironic that while hes overseas, he calls the democrats crazy. so he continues to play the partisan game when hes overseas, but if somehow normal business and congress proceeds, thats illlegitimate. >> so let me ask you this, because youve got -- to antonios point here, republicans cool lessing around the president. you have senator john kennedy -- actually, when chuck todd was on the set during the week, about ukraine and this claim that is unfounded that there is some sort o...

Respect or is the issue about what the president is saying? >> i think everybodys pretty worried. i think this has certainly put everybody on their toes which probably was the presidents objective in a lot of these things. if you look at the kind of relationship that president ma macron has sought with president trump, he went out of his way i think to really engage the president as much as possible. but following the g-7 meeting in toronto, it doesnt seem like their relationship is going that w...

Reason to follow up in late november after the election. >> right. you would think so. theres so many holes in this story m story. it could look like a piece of swiss cheese. so many questions, inconsistencies with what donald trump jr. has said, others relating to the trump campaign have said, and what the russians are saying about this, as well. and information that we have gleaned from documents relating to this meeting. and so this is part of what robert mueller is looking at in his investig...